ShareTone: A Web-Based Collaborative System
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Lee, Gen-Cher
Abstract
In this dissertation we focus on collaborative systems. We study the concept,technical issues involved, and the design and implementation of a collaborative system. We emphasize the efficiency and flexibility of building a collaborative system that supports diverse content-based interactions among people through network communications over the Internet. A main objective of this dissertation is to build a collaborative framework that is flexible, extensible, and can be used to construct any type of collaborative system. Our work can be summarized by following the hierarchy of knowledge building. For data delivering, we create an event-based collaboration awareness development framework that supports both data-centric and operation-centric methods. We also create some special dynamic and flexible event generation tools to enhance the degree of reusability and automation. With this collaboration aware framework, we further create a complicated collaborative algorithm visualization tool and wrap a single user text editor into a collaborative editor. For information sharing platform, we build a ShareToneDesktop platform with the capabilities that support customizable content types, and workflow-enabled content management developed by the 3rd parties. We also establish a content based integration mechanism for composing synchronous collaborative components into an asynchronous information sharing platform. For knowledge management, we build a computational problem solving environment for algorithmic researchers, teachers and students who make heavy use of the components created in the previous two parts in practice. The problem solving environment serves as a test case of the applicability and usability of these components of which a large scale collaborative system is composed. As a result, we incorporate all the software components and development tools into the ShareTone website http://www.sharetone.org. We hope this ShareTone website can serve as a basis for constructing even more powerful and versatile collaborative system to help people do collaboration and build group knowledge more efficiently and effectively.
Subjects
Collaborative Systems
Collaborative Applications
Content Management System
Synchronous Collaborative Application
Asynchronous Collaborative Application
Collaborative Applications Development Framework
Content-Based Integration Mechanism
Type
thesis
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